Shoigu expects the deployment of strike weapons and NATO troops in Finland

This is reported by Russian media.

Additional military contingents and NATO strike weapons capable of striking critical facilities in northwestern Russia at a considerable depth are likely to be deployed on Finnish territory," Shoigu said.

According to him, "threats to Russia's military security have multiplied in the western and north-western strategic directions."

After Finland joined NATO, Russia's land border with alliance countries almost doubled," Shoigu said.

He also said that "taking into account the armed forces of Eastern European countries, about 360,000 servicemen, 8,000 armoured vehicles, 6,000 artillery systems and mortars, 650 planes and helicopters are deployed in the immediate vicinity of the borders of the Union State."